Kategorie: Science

  • Mind-Bending Interactive Installation Looks to be Straight from TRON and Matrix!

    Mind-Bending Interactive Installation Looks to be Straight from TRON and Matrix!

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    Hakanai is an interactive installation like no other, as the images are on-stage animations that move in physical patterns according to the rhythm of the live sounds that they follow. In the Japanese language, Hakanai refers to that which is temporary / fragile, evanescent / transient, and in this case, something set between dreams as well as reality.

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    Hakanaï is a solo choreographic performance that unfolds through a series of images in motion. In Japanese Hakanaï denotes that which is temporary and fragile, evanescent and transient, and in this case something set between dreams and reality. While widely associated with nature, the term is now often used to elicit an intangible aspect of the human condition and its precariousness. It encompasses two elements: that concerning the human being as well as that related to dreams. This symbolic relationship is the foundation of the dance composition in which a dancer gives life to a space somewhere between the borders of imagination and reality, through her interactions with the images she encounters. The images are on-stage animations that move in physical patterns according to the rhythm of the live sounds that they follow. The performance’s outcome is the revelation of a digital installation to its audience.

    Source: https://vimeo.com/46045360#embed

    http://www.am-cb.net/projets/hakanai/

  • When Tiny Electric Car Meets Trike! Toyota i-ROAD

    When Tiny Electric Car Meets Trike! Toyota i-ROAD

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    You Get the Futuristic Toyota i-ROAD

    With Toyota’s „Active Lean“ technology, it’s not only safe, but intuitive and enjoyable to drive, with no need for a helmet. The vehicle is only 92-inches long, 57-inches tall and 35-inches-wide.

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    With an all-electric powertrain that uses a lithium-ion battery to power two 2kW motors mounted in the front wheels, the i-ROAD’s battery can be fully recharged from a conventional domestic power supply in a reasonable 3-hours. The „Active Lean“ system uses a lean actuator and gearing mounted above the front suspension member, linked via a yoke to the left and right front wheels. There is also an ECU that calculates the required degree of lean based on steering angle, gyro-sensor and vehicle speed information, with the system automatically moving the wheels up and down in opposite directions, applying lean angle to counteract the centrifugal force of cornering.

  • Die Sonnenfinsternis 2015 , Sonnenfinsternis im Zeitraffer!

    Die Sonnenfinsternis 2015 , Sonnenfinsternis im Zeitraffer!

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    Source: http://www.spiegel.de/video/sonnenfinsternis-2015-im-zeitraffer-video-video-1564287.html

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  • Alle Infos zur Sonnenfinsternis gibt es bei uns + LIVE Stream!

    Alle Infos zur Sonnenfinsternis gibt es bei uns + LIVE Stream!

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    Morgen ist es endlich wieder so weit, um 9:27 geht es bereits los!

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    Die totale Sonnenfinsternis vom 20. März 2015 findet am Tag des Frühlingsbeginns auf der Nordhalbkugel statt. Die totale Verfinsterung beginnt östlich von Neufundland, der Schattenpfad umrahmt dannGrönland und Island auf seinem Weg durch das Europäische Nordmeer. Die Färöer-Inseln und Spitzbergen liegen in der totalen Zone. Die Finsternis endet nahe dem Nordpol, genau an dem Tag, an dem dort dieSonne erstmals nach einem halben Jahr wieder über dem Horizont erscheint. In ihrer partiellen Phase kann die Finsternis von ganz Europa gesehen werden.

    Was braucht ihr um die Sonnenfinsternis beobachten zu können?!

    Eine normale Sonnenbrille oder selbst gebastelte Brillen bitte nicht benutzen!!!

    Wichtig ist ein geeigneter Lichtschutz. Eine herkömmliche Sonnenbrille mit UV-Filter reicht nicht aus, sagt der Bundesinnungsmeister der Optiker Peter Gumplmayer: „Bitte die partielle Sonnenfinsternis nicht durch die Sonnenbrille beobachten, die dunkelt nicht genug ab.“ Wer sich eine Brille selbst basteln will, kann sich im Fachhandel eine Spezialfolie besorgen, so der Optiker. Aber Achtung: Alufolie, Rettungsdecke, CDs, Filmstreifen etc. lassen gefährliche Strahlung wie die Wärmestrahlung einfach durch. Die Netzhaut kann irreparabel geschädigt werden. Auch, wenn diese Folien mehrmals gefaltet werden. Quelle: Ö3.at

    Wo bekomme ich jetzt noch eine Brille schnell her?!

    Falls man keine Briller mehr bei seinem Optiker bekommt, sollte man noch Tageszeitungen am diesem Tag durchsuchen 😉 Nur ein Tipp von uns.

    Sonst wird das LIVE Event auch im Fernsehen und über LIVE Streams übertragen:

    Watch live video from Sternwarte_Peterberg on www.twitch.tv

    Die nächste totale Sonnenfinsternis gibt es in Österreich erst 2081 (in Kärnten, Vorarlberg, Tirol, Salzburg und in den angrenzenden Teilen der Steiermark) zu sehen. In Wien erst wieder 2227.

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  • Driverless Mercedes F015 Spotted Around San Francisco!

    Driverless Mercedes F015 Spotted Around San Francisco!

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    The driverless Mercedes-Benz F015 made its debut at CES 2015 in Las Vegas, but it was spotted cruising around San Francisco just a few days ago. To drive itself around safely, it communicates with its surroundings both visually and acoustically, using a laser projection system. When driving, it can project lights on to the road using its LED headlights to let pedestrians know when to cross. There’s also a manual mode should someone want to take over.

     

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    „Last Thursday, Mercedes-Benz said the car was driving around the city ‚for running footage and photography for future communication purposes,‘ adding that development is still ‚underway‘.

    If the F015 eventually goes into production, its particular specifications could change. It is part of Mercedes‘ vision for urban autonomous driving, which would include ’safe zones‘ for self-driving cars,“ reports The Daily Mail.

    Source: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2698886/thumbs/o-MERCEDES-570.jpg?3

  • ‚Edible Growth‘ 3D Gedrucktes Essen

    ‚Edible Growth‘ 3D Gedrucktes Essen

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    Ein Neues Konzept für selbst wachsendes 3D gedrucktes Essen kommt von einer jungen Studentin , die Ihr Design bereits 2014 auf der Dutch Design Messe präsentieren konnte.

    Hier ein paar Bilder der kleinen ‚Kunstwerke‘

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    The Edible Growth project fits the category “Food for Thought” and is partly created as a form of critical design. I want to show that high-tech food or lab-produced food does not have to be unhealthy, unnatural, and not tasteful. Edible Growth is an example of high-tech but fully natural, healthy, and sustainable food made possible by combining aspects of  nature, science, technology and design. Edible Growth shows real growth, an intensifying flavor and structure, makes smart use of natural processes like fermentation and photosynthesis and lowers the use of  resources.

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    Bis es aber soweit ist, das wir zuhause unsere kleinen selbst wachsenden Pilzkuglen Essen können, sollte man doch lieber auf normale alternativen zurückgreifen 🙂

    Source: http://www.chloerutzerveld.com/#/edible-growth-2014/

  • Put an iPad Into the Holocube HC Tablet and Watch Holograms Come to Life!

    Put an iPad Into the Holocube HC Tablet and Watch Holograms Come to Life!

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    We have seen the future of holograms, and it includes the Holocube HC Tablet. This gadget essentially transforms your iPad Air 2 into a holographic projector, thanks to a transparent synthetic mirror with a solid hinge at a 45° angle that captures moving media on the screen. Images are seemingly projected onto thin air. It’s crafted with a thin aluminum fingerprint-resistant housing to ensure that the iPad’s sleek aesthetic minimalist designed isn’t ruined.

  • Contact lens with telescope might to increase peripheral vision in Future!

    Contact lens with telescope might to increase peripheral vision in Future!

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    A revolutionary new contact lens with a built in telescope could help millions to regain their full sight. Just a wink of one’s eye is enough to zoom in or turn the telescope off, which increases peripheral vision three fold.

    The new technology is set to help sufferers of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which can result in the loss of vision in the center of the visual field. This makes it difficult to read and recognize faces.

    The 1.55mm thick lens contains an extremely thin, reflective telescope. Small mirrors inside bounce light around, expanding the perceived size of objects and magnifying the view, similar to looking through low-magnification binoculars.

    It is very simple to operate with the lens working in conjunction with glasses. A simple wink of the right eye makes the telescope zoom in, while if the user winks with their left eye, then the telescope is turned off. “The most compelling reason why you would want to have this is to help people with serious visual problems, such as macular degeneration, or other retinal illnesses where people have severe vision loss,”said Dr. Eric Tremblay, who is a designer with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, which is based in Lausanne. “In a lot of cases magnification is very useful. So what people usually use are head-mounted telescopes which don’t work for everything,” which was reported by the Daily Telegraph.

     

     

    The contact lens had an unlikely source for funding, with DARPA, the Pentagon’s research agency providing the cash. They wanted it to be developed to give soldiers a form of bionic vision.

    “They were really interested in supervision, but the reality is more tame than that,” said Tremblay at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Jose. So far, only five people have tested the latest version, according to the Guardian.

    Official Source: http://rt.com/news/232511-contact-lens-telescope-sight/

  • Mars One Mission Selects 100 Finalists for One Way Trip to the Red Planet

    Mars One Mission Selects 100 Finalists for One Way Trip to the Red Planet

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    Mars One, the Dutch-based venture, announced yesterday that it’s slimmed down its list of applicants to just 50 men and 50 women who will compete for the chance to take a one-way trip to the red planet. For those who haven’t been following the Mars One project, they plan to put on a reality-TV competition to select 24 prospective crew members for missions to Mars, starting as early as 2024. Winners would be expected to start up a permanent colony on the Red Planet. Tens of thousands signed up for Mars One consideration in 2013, and the 100 competitors were chosen after going through interviews with chief medical officer Norbert Kraft who says: „Being one of the best individual candidates does not automatically make you the greatest team player, so I look forward to seeing how the candidates progress and work together in the upcoming challenges.“

     

    „Mars One estimates that it will need billions of dollars to conduct its Mars missions, including a robotic rover mission planned for launch in 2018. The money question is the biggest unknown right now, but last year an MIT study concluded that the venture’s plan to send humans to Mars and keep them alive was „overly optimistic“ on technical grounds,“ reports NBC News.

  • Aliens Might Have Seeded Earth with These Tiny Metal Orbs That Ooze Biological Material!

    Aliens Might Have Seeded Earth with These Tiny Metal Orbs That Ooze Biological Material!

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    Astrobiologist Dr Milton Wainwright used balloons to collect samples of dust and particles 16 miles up in the Earth’s atmosphere, and in one sample, he found a tiny metal ball that left impact crater in the device. He claims the metal orb, the same width as a human hair and made from titanium, may have been traveling fast as came from outer space. Wainwright says it was found to be oozing a strange material, which is biological and could in fact be a colony of tiny microorganisms.

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    Dr Wainwright says: „The sphere made an impact crater on the sampling stub. This proves beyond doubt that the particle was travelling at speed from space when it was sampled. Unless of course we can find details of the civilisation that is supposed to have sent it in this respect it is probably an unprovable theory.“

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  • First movie from Oculus, ‚LOST‘

    First movie from Oculus, ‚LOST‘

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    Earlier today Oculus announced Story Studio, its in-house production team dedicated to producing virtual reality movies. We’ve been seeing VR narrative experiences for years at this point, and while they’ve been getting more and more impressive they’ve still been iterative steps forward. Despite how much we’ve all wanted to it to happen, nothing has stood up, raised its hands, and shouted „I’m the project that proves this crazy thing could actually work.“

    Source + Full Story: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/26/7919177/oculus-lost-virtual-reality-film-sundance

  • Microsoft’s HoloLens in action!

    Microsoft’s HoloLens in action!

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    Microsoft’s event this afternoon may have focused on Windows 10, but the biggest news out of it was HoloLens — a headset that lets its wearer augment their world with apps, games, and other information. Since that’s a difficult experience to convey on stage, Microsoft first presented its vision for what’ll be possible with HoloLens in a pair of videos, both of which it’s now published onto YouTube.

    You can watch the glasses‘ introduction above and an additional video speculating about their potential below. In case you haven’t caught on, Microsoft has huge ambitions here: „This is the next generation of computing,“ one person says. „This is the next PC.“

    Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7865701/hololens-video-preview-microsoft-ar-headset

  • This is the Largest Hubble Image Ever Taken, Views of Andromeda Galaxy!

    This is the Largest Hubble Image Ever Taken, Views of Andromeda Galaxy!

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    What you’re looking at above is the sharpest and largest Hubble image ever taken. It stretches 48,000 light-years across the Andromeda Galaxy’s disk, and shows more than 100 million stars. This galaxy may be located 2.5 million light-years from Earth, but since Andromeda fills up so much of Hubble’s field of view, it was able to capture incredible detail in its survey of the galaxy. „Hubble traces densely packed stars extending from the innermost hub of the galaxy. Moving out from this central galactic bulge, the panorama sweeps from the galaxy’s central bulge across lanes of stars and dust to the sparser outer disk,“ said a Hubble representative.

    According to Space.com, „The panorama was created as part of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program. This image was created as a mosaic of 7,398 exposures taken over the course of 411 pointings of the telescope, according to Hubble officials.“

    Source: http://twistedsifter.com/videos/deep-zoom-into-andromeda/

  • New smartphone battery recharges in less than two minutes

    New smartphone battery recharges in less than two minutes

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    Your next smartphone could charge in less than two minutes.

    Since first showing off the lab-based prototype of its ultra-fast battery charger, the company behind the device has moved much closer to making it a reality.

    StoreDot, the nanotech startup behind the charger, has a new prototype that is smaller and doesn’t add bulk to the actual smartphone. During Mashable’s demo, the Galaxy S5 battery went from almost empty to 100% in less than two minutes.

    It almost sounds too good to be true but StoreDot CEO Doron Myersdorf says it’s because the company took a completely different approach when creating its battery. Rather than trying to improve the capacity of the battery itself, the company redesigned the internal structure of the battery so it can charge rapidly. The tradeoff for this speed is the overall battery life is shorter— the battery I saw will last about five hours.

    But by cutting charging time down to a minute or two— Mysersdorf says the final product will have a recharge time of well under two minutes— recharging once or twice a day is a nonissue.

    „This is not trivial, it took us a lot of research,“ Mysersdorf said. „This is a design that is trying to achieve something that was not the goal before. Nobody thought about giving you less energy ,everybody thought about giving you more energy.“

    There are some caveats. The battery is more expensive than typical batteries and Myersdorf anticipates the battery will add about $50 to the total cost of a phone. And though StoreDot has made prototypes that work with handsets currently on the market, smartphone manufacturers will have to make „some modifications“ to their devices in order to accommodate the battery. This means it will be up to individual companies to take advantage of the technology.

    Source + Full Story: http://mashable.com/2015/01/08/storedot-battery-charger/

  • Nike confirms it’s working on ‚Back to the Future‘ shoe for 2015 release

    Nike confirms it’s working on ‚Back to the Future‘ shoe for 2015 release

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    In an instance of life imitating art, a Nike exec confirmed that the company is working on getting its Marty McFly „Back to the Future“ shoe — with Power Laces — out to customers in 2015, the year that they appeared in Back to the Future II.

    Speaking at a trade show in Long Beach, California, on Monday, Nike’s innovation chief Tinker Hatfield said the shoe — known as Nike Air MAG — would hit in 2015. He declined to give a release date or pricing info and distribution info, reminding the crowd that there are still „11 and two-thirds months left in 2015,“ according to sneaker blog Nice Kicks.

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    „The anticipation for this release is something that few understand,“ Matt Halfhill, publisher of NiceKicks, told Mashable. „I don’t even know if everyone at Nike realizes just how much demand there is for this shoe.“

    Nike has been teasing the release since 2011, when it dropped a video promoting the self-lacing shoes. The company even filed for a patent for the Power Lace technology. At the time, Nike auctioned off 1,500 pairs of the shoes with net proceeds going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which funds research to fight Parkinson’s Disease. Fox, who starred in the BTF trilogy, suffers from that disease.

    As 2015 rolled around, many revisited BTFII’s predictions for the year. Reddit users also pointed out that Pepsi has a marketing opportunity for 2015 since futuristic bottles of the soft drink appear in the film as well.

    Source: http://mashable.com/2015/01/07/nike-confirms-back-to-the-future-shoe-2015-release/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

  • Ninebot One – The Futuristic Self-Balancing Unicycle!

    Ninebot One – The Futuristic Self-Balancing Unicycle!

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    Ninebot One looks like something straight from a science fiction film, but it’s a real gadget that you can buy now. When fully-charged, this self-balancing unicycle has a top speed of 12.5mph, and a maximum range of 18-miles. Its frame is crafted from magnesium alloy to ensure maximum performance and the most skid resistance. Product page.

    „Charging up the 28-pound scooter takes 1-2 hours. It features iridescent lights that can be set to show different effects, and you can further customize the device with multiple colors for the shell,“ says HiConsumpion.

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  • Drone reveals view of ‚ghost city‘ from the air!

    Drone reveals view of ‚ghost city‘ from the air!

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    Drone reveals haunting view of Chernobyl’s ‚ghost city‘ from the air

    Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

    Source: http://mashable.com/2014/11/29/drone-chernobyl/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

  • You Won’t Believe These 10 Weird Things Actually Exist!

    You Won’t Believe These 10 Weird Things Actually Exist!

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    Officially called Hydnellum peckii, this non-toxic fungus produces spores on the surface of vertical spines or tooth-like projections that hang from the undersurface of the fruit bodies. Young fruit bodies can „bleed“ a bright red fluid that contains a pigment known to have anticoagulant properties similar to heparin.

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    The unusual appearance of the young fruit bodies has earned the species several descriptive common names, including strawberries and cream, the bleeding Hydnellum, the bleeding tooth fungus, the red-juice tooth, and the Devil’s tooth.

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  • 57-Year-Old Google Executive Jumps from Edge of Space!

    57-Year-Old Google Executive Jumps from Edge of Space!

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    Sets New World Record!

    Alan Eustace, a 57-year-old senior vice president of Knowledge at Google, was lifted up to the edge of space earlier this morning by a balloon filled with 35,000 cubic feet of helium, from an abandoned runway at an airport in New Mexico. He fell faster than the speed of sound and actually broke Felix Baumgartner’s world altitude record set just two years ago by hopping from 135,000-feet.

    „It was amazing. It was beautiful. You could see the darkness of space and you could see the layers of atmosphere, which I had never seen before. It was a wild, wild ride. I hugged on to the equipment module and tucked my legs and I held my heading,“ says Alan.

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  • Noch 7 Tage bis zur YPD Online-Cha​llenge 2014

    Noch 7 Tage bis zur YPD Online-Cha​llenge 2014

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    Letzte Chance zur Anmeldung bei der YPD-Challenge 2014 –
    Noch sieben Tage bis zur Online-Challenge!

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    Der Anmeldecountdown läuft! In sieben Tagen, am 25.2.2014, startet die Online-Challenge, in der sich die YPD-Kandidaten den ersten herausfordernden Fragen stellen müssen. Im Zeitraum von 14 Tagen werden die jungen Erwachsenen in 3er-Teams zu fünf Online-Events geladen, wo es in je 90 Minuten unterschiedliche Aufgaben zu lösen gilt. Aufgrund der Komplexität sind die Aufgaben nicht unmittelbar mit Google & Wikipedia zu lösen. Ehrgeiz, Willensstärke und die Fähigkeit des Querdenkens müssen abgerufen werden, um sich im Gewinnerfeld positionieren zu können. Zusätzlich zu den fünf Spieltagen erwartet die Teilnehmer die Tagesaufgabe als besondere Challenge.

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  • Fascinating Look at the Rotating Space Colony (Stanford torus) by NASA

    Fascinating Look at the Rotating Space Colony (Stanford torus) by NASA

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    If you’ve seen the movie Elysium, then this rotating space colony concept probably is still fresh in your mind, but did you know that this concept was first brought up in the 1970s, by NASA? The Stanford torus is a proposed design for a space habitat capable of housing 10,000 to 140,000 permanent residents.

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    The Stanford torus was proposed during the 1975 NASA Summer Study, conducted at Stanford University, with the purpose of speculating on designs for future space colonies.

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  • Fascinating Look at Mysterious Ultra Deep Holes Discovered in Russia

    Fascinating Look at Mysterious Ultra Deep Holes Discovered in Russia

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    People are discovering mysterious, ultra deep holes in Russian forests.

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    They appear in the dense forest where there is no easy access for a car, truck, heavy digging equipment, or even people. Plus, there’s no soil nearby that should be taken from such deep hole to be found.

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